[Freemint-list] Interesting github project / ressurection

[Keli Hlodversson]

Agreed here. I admit that most of the fun hacking on ParaTOS (my parallel
implementation of an Linux system call emulator mentioned earlier) went
away when I had implemented the basic system calls and was able to load
other executables from an emulated executable.

Since then, the development has been dormant. Unless I get some traction on
a VDI -> Cairo bridge I've been playing around with.... sigh... some day ;)

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Ryan Daum <ryan.daum at gmail.com> wrote:

> I"m with you. It's a hobby. Almost nobody is doing atari or other 'retro
> computing' stuff for productivity or profit. Hobbies don't have to have a
> rational -- with apologies to Kant, they can be an end in themself.
> Nostalgia isn't the sum total of it, it's just pleasure in doing certain
> things.
>
> And as a software engineer by trade, there's things about DR's GEM and
> other parts of the Atari platform that I appreciate. So seeing it improved
> and carried on is a personal pleasure to watch and participate in where I
> can.
>
> Ryan
>
> On 24 January 2017 at 19:49, Mark Duckworth <mduckworth at atari-source.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I know I'm weird but 3/4 of the fun for me is making the platform do
>> things it would have been thought impossible.  Hence the desire to run
>> netsurf, ct60, ctpci, firebee, etc.  Pushing the platform back towards
>> usability.  So I don't see this type of thing as a future direction so
>> much as an other path for playing and pushing the system.  It's not much
>> different when it comes down to it than Aranym.  Absolutely insane
>> performance and capabilities.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On 01/24/2017 09:57 AM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
>> > Den 24.01.2017 13:53, skrev Vincent Rivière:
>> >
>> >> IMHO, that concept is *the* ultimate thing to do. A system like Wine
>> >> which allows to transparently run TOS programs on a host OS, without
>> >> the
>> >> burden of a full-blown hardware emulator. It is the way I would like to
>> >> run old Atari software nowadays (if any). Combined to a JIT CPU
>> >> emulator, it would provide ultimate speed. And full memory protection.
>> >
>> > Personally I think this is a step in the wrong direction. There are very
>> > few TOS/GEM applications that are better than what we have on modern
>> > platforms,
>> > so why would you want to use them under Windows or Linux? In the general
>> > case
>> > this is a completely uninteresting solution. Technically interesting -
>> > yes. And
>> > almost certainly a lot of fun to implement. But of very little use.
>> >
>> > Let's face it, this platform has not been for "productive" use for many,
>> > many
>> > years. It's about nostalgia. And most of that nostalgia is gone when you
>> > abstract away the platform itself.
>> >
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With kind regards,
Hrafnkell "Keli" Hloedversson
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